Kaiser Permanente
|Director Innovation & AI
Oakland, CA, US
Summary
Led enterprise product strategy and development of AI-powered digital health platforms across 40+ hospitals, collaborating with clinical, engineering, design, and executive teams to improve chronic condition management and operational efficiency.
Highlights
Directed enterprise-wide AI strategy across 40+ hospitals, aligning with clinical and operational goals to enhance care quality, patient experience, and workforce efficiency.
Designed and deployed a Hospital Digital Twin platform, projected to deliver $1B+ in operational savings via workflow optimization and in-silico experimentation (USPTO 19/247,983 filed 06/2025).
Reduced patient wait times by 20% through near real-time unit census forecasting across 60 hospitals, improving staffing allocation and patient flow.
Developed predictive and journey analytics models for CKD, ESRD, and diabetic retinopathy, achieving an improved early detection AUC of 96% and better chronic disease management.
Established bias and fairness monitoring pipelines, ensuring equitable AI outcomes across racial, socioeconomic, and geographic patient groups.
Implemented HIPAA/HITRUST-compliant pipelines with CI/CD, model versioning, and audit-ready monitoring leveraging AWS, Kubernetes, and Databricks.
Delivered quarterly AI strategy presentations to the C-suite and board of directors, translating complex AI initiatives into business ROI metrics for non-technical stakeholders.
Directed $150M+ AI portfolio budget allocation, achieving 15% cost savings while exceeding delivery targets across three concurrent enterprise initiatives with teams of 40+ FTEs.